British men held hostage for one year in Iraq
The five families of five men who are being held hostage in Iraq are making a public appeal for the release of the hostages.
The civilian contractors were kidnapped by armed militants at the Iraqi Ministry of Finance in Baghdad.
Some of their friends and relatives marked the first anniversary of their capture by doing an interview with the BBC’s Frank Gardner.
Britain’s ambassador to Iraq also urged the hostage-takers to free their captives and appealed for information.
In the BBC interview the friends and relations were identified only by their first names. One of them, Lisette, made a plea on behalf of her brother Jason.
She said: “Give him back, let him come home to his family.
“We really miss him, there’s not a day, or a minute or anything that goes by without us thinking about Jason. We really want him home.”
